tinker

• n. 补锅匠；修补匠；焊锅；（美）小鲭鱼
• vi. 做焊锅匠；焊补；笨手笨脚地做事
• vt. 修补；粗修
• n. (Tinker)人名；(英)廷克

可能来自拟声词，-er,人。比喻用法。

1. a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts

2. an itinerant Gypsy

3. a traveling repairman who mends broken things (such as metal household utensils)

4. small mackerel found nearly worldwide

tinker

tinker: [13] Etymologically, a tinker is probably a ‘worker in tin’. It could well be descended from an unrecorded Old English *tinecere, a plausible derivative of tin. There is an alternative possibility, however: it may have been derived from the now obsolete verb tink ‘tinkle’ (which, like tinkle [14] itself, was of imitative origin), in allusion to the metallic sounds made by tinkers repairing pots (northern and Scottish dialects had the word tinkler for ‘tinker’).

tinker (n.)

"mender of kettles, pots, pans, etc.," late 14c. (mid-13c. as a surname), of uncertain origin. Some connect the word with the sound made by light hammering on metal. Tinker's damn "something slight and worthless" is from 1824, probably preserving tinkers' reputation for free and casual use of profanity; the plain and simple etymology is not good enough for some writers, and since 1877 an ingeniously elaborate but baseless derivation has been circulated claiming the second word is really dam.

tinker (v.)

1590s, "to work as a tinker," from tinker (n.). Meaning "work imperfectly, keep busy in a useless way," is first found 1650s. Related: Tinkered; tinkering.

Instead of the Government admitting its error, it just tinkered with the problem...

政府没有承认错误，只是敷衍了事地处理问题。

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They tinkered with the engine…

他们修了修发动机。

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The cognitive psychologist is like the tinker who wants to know how a clock works.

认知心理学者倒很像一个需要通晓钟表如何运转的钟表修理匠.

辞典例句

I had a tinker at your radio, but I can't mend it.

我把你的收音机修了一下, 但没修好.

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He likes to tinker with radios.

他最爱鼓捣收音机.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Please don't tinker with my car engine.

请不要乱弄我的汽车发动机.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

Don't tinker with my television.

别乱弄我的电视机.

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Congress is likely to tinker with it, probably soon.

国会可能会很快对该法案做出部分修订.

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It is also because politicians a strong desire to tinker piecemeal.

另一个原因在于,政界人士强烈希望修补残局.

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This is Tinker Bell. She can fly!

这是小叮当. 他能飞!

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The tinker passes the alley every day, crying out for business.

小炉匠每天都从巷子里过, 吆喝着做生意.

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Because he is a tinker, and a poor man, he is despised, and cannot have justice.

因为他是个补锅匠, 是穷人, 所以被人瞧不起, 得不到公正的待遇.

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There was Tinker, sitting there, cheerful as you please.

廷克坐在那里, 非常愉快的样子.

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As he walked down the road, the tinker came walking toward him.

当他走在路上时, 那为小炉匠向他走过来.

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The tinker gladly accepted Robin's offer. The two walked along together.

小炉匠很高兴地接受了罗宾的提议. 两个人一起走着.

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The Goblin Tinker and his army of Mechanical Sheep are on the move!

地精白铁匠和它的军队.机器羊.正在行进中.

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The ISO also start without needing to tinker and demos such as Metal Gear Solid.

ISO当然也是可以运行的,不需要不论什么修改,例如合金设备.

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He likes to tinker ( away ) at broken gadgets.

他喜欢摸弄坏掉的小器具.

辞典例句

Don't tinker with my camera.

别乱动我的照相机.

辞典例句

Don't tinker with the TV.

别瞎弄电视机.

《简明英汉词典》

Improves other Tinker abilities with each level learned and improves the Tinker's speed and damage.

其他廷克能力提高与每一级的经验教训,提高了廷克的速度和破坏.

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This tinker with cloud cover.

这就要是云层变薄.

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With some constitutional provisions, we tinker at our peril.

对于有些宪法上的规定, 如果我们修改的话,就需要承担风险.

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Give my husband an old motorbike to tinker with and he's as happy as the day is long.

修理好我丈夫的一辆老式摩托车,他会很高兴的.

《简明英汉词典》

Hook then picked up Tinker Bell and locked her up in a lantern made of glass.

随后他抓起丁卡·贝尔,把她锁在一个玻璃灯罩中.

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Sure enough, he saw the tinker walking toward him.

果然, 他看到小炉匠向他走过来.

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Why was Tinker Bell's light beginning to fade?

为什么婷珂·儿的光芒暗淡下去了?

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My parents brought a new dog named Tinker Belle.

我父母为我新买了条叫廷克·贝尔的狗.

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It is not enough to tinker at the edges; our objective must be to reconstruct the entire system.

只在外缘做一些小修小补是不够的，我们的目标必须是重建整个系统。

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